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Marquesa By Jeffrey Cardenas - eBook 22,000 words
eBook $9.99 Buy from Amazon.com |
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Marquesa On August 1, 1994, Jeffrey Cardenas boarded a homemade houseboat and puttered out of Key West harbor toward a cluster of islands on the distant horizon. The Marquesas rest near the western terminus of The Florida Keys where two great oceans meet in a swirl of perpetual current. Jeffrey’s plan was to spend a full cycle of the summer moon, alone, in this remote and idyllic atoll where he once made a living guiding fly casters for tarpon, permit, and bonefish. With meager provisions, a library of books, a skiff, and his fly rods, Jeffrey immersed himself, literally, in a warm and salty realm where the vertical span between the seafloor and high ground is measured in inches. His daily ritual was determined by the tides. He fished, he read, he observed, and he wrote. With an angler’s instinct and the eye of a naturalist, Cardenas returned to Key West after his six-week sabbatical and completed one of the definitive literary works of that era. Marquesa: A Time & Place With Fish was first released in 1995 by Meadow Run Press and quickly sold through multiple printings. Marquesa eventually lapsed from print, but we are proud to revive Jeffrey’s book in digital format, complete with original illustrations by Key West artist, A.D. Tinkham. If you have an affinity for saltwater fly fishing, this book will change the way you observe and value the fish, birds, and marine life of our coastal flats and estuaries. |
Jeffrey Cardenas Jeffrey is a South Florida native who has spent his entire life around tropical saltwater. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in photojournalism and attended post-graduate studies there in fiction writing and fine art photography. His writing and images have appeared in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Time, Outside, Playboy, and Fly Rod & Reel magazine where he was a Contributing Editor and saltwater columnist. For the past 30 years, Jeffrey has made his living on and around the water. He has made three transatlantic crossings in sailboats including a solo crossing in 1980 in a 23-foot sloop. In 1985, on assignment for Time magazine, he donned SCUBA gear and photographed Mel Fisher’s crew as they recovered a $400 million motherlode of treasure from the wreck of the La Senora de Atocha near the Marquesas. For many years Jeffrey guided flats fishermen in the Key West area and in 1989 he was named Fly Rod & Reel magazine’s Guide of the Year. After taking a break from guiding, Jeffrey founded the Saltwater Angler fly shop in Key West. Jeffrey currently lives in Key West, and when he’s not on the water, he spends his spare time piloting his Cirrus, looking for fish on the flats of the Keys, and flying into remote areas of the Bahamas and Caribbean.
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